OCR Text |
Show T 0 THE RIGHT HONOURABLJ~ WILLIAM CHARLES COLYEAR, E A R L oF P 0 R T M 0 R E, VISCOUNT MJLSINTOWN. Mv LoRD, THE dignity of the fubjeet of this little Treatife, not any perfuafion of its merits as a literary compofition, encourages me to offer it to your Lord/hip's patronage. The caufe of freedom has always been found fuflicient, in every age and country, to attraCt the notice of the generous and humane; and it is therefore, in a more peculiar manner, worthy of the attention and favour of a perfonage, who holds a difiinguilhed rank in that illuftrious iOand, the very air of which has been determined, upon a late invefiigation of its laws, to be an an tidote againfi Oavery. I feel a fatisfaetion in the opportunity, which the publication of this treatife affords me, of acknowledging your Lord/hip's civilities, which can only be equalled by the refpeet, with which I am, Your Lord/hip's much obliged, and obedient fervant, THOMAS CLARKSON. f;15828 8J7 |